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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 29, 2021

VOL. 275 NO. 19 January 29, 2021
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Programs

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U.S. Navy Opens Search For MH-60, MQ-8 Replacements

Jan 28, 2021
The ongoing AoA will seek to identify gaps in capabilities that will be required in the 2030s, as compared to current technology. 
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Germany Looking To FMS To Restart Heavy Helicopter Tender

Jan 28, 2021
Germany is restarting its heavy transport helicopter program and looking to solicit bids for competing platforms through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales process.
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Top Aces Secures Ex-Israeli F-16s For USAF Adversary Air Services

Jan 28, 2021
Top Aces has begun the process of transferring former Israeli F-16s back to the U.S. to provide adversary air services for the U.S. Air Force.
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France, Germany, Spain Strive To Maintain FCAS Schedule

Jan 28, 2021
All three air chiefs of staff involved in the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) are emphasizing the importance of achieving first flights of the demonstrators by 2026.
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Northrop Abandons Cluster Bomb Work

Jan 28, 2021
Northrop Grumman is giving up a legacy contract that supports testing of cluster bomb components after a decision to apply sustainability precepts to the work, leaders of the large defense prime said Jan. 28.
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U.S. Startup Adapts Ekranoplan Concept To Unmanned Logistics

Jan 27, 2021
Flying Ship is a U.S. startup that plans to modernize the Russian ekranoplan ground-effect vehicle concept and bring unmanned aircraft technology to maritime logistics while avoiding the onerous burden of aerospace regulation.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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Flexrotor UAS Put Through Reliability Testing For SOCOM

Jan 28, 2021
Aerovel has conducted reliability testing of its Flexrotor vertical-takeoff-and-landing Group 2 unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Special Operations Command.

Business

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Northrop Financial Filing Reveals $444 Million Classified Sale

Jan 28, 2021
Annual revenue reported by the Aeronautics Systems division in 2020 was higher, and, notably, included what Northrop’s filing described only as a “$444 million sale of equipment to a restricted customer.” 
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General Dynamics Merges Fed IT Units As Sector M&A Throttles Up

Jan 28, 2021
The new merger of the two General Dynamics information technology business units into a new Technologies division is raising eyebrows for a potential spinoff someday, particularly as large mergers and acquisitions continue to be announced across the military, space and intelligence services sector.

Funding & Policy

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Scotland Plans Sustainable Aircraft Flights From Orkney Test Site

Jan 22, 2021
The UK’s first test site for sustainable aviation, including electric and hydrogen propulsion, is to be established at Kirkwall Airport in Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
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Daily Memo: What Did Trump Change About U.S. Aero In China?

Jan 25, 2021
The U.S. aerospace industry’s future in China is doomed. 

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